Quotes About Vastness

The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of a world so expansive as to be impervious to harm. But today, the Amazon River Basin, occupying more than 2.7 million square miles is at our fingertips and is considered one of the most ecologically threatened regions of the world.

Pero, más allá, no había nada. Y la mirada, al no topar con ningún obstáculo, se prolongaba hasta el infinito, perdiéndose en el camino de vuelta.

The blue of heaven is larger than the clouds.

He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger.

Most people say it makes them feel smaller. Like the world is so big, it makes

Raymond wondered how it would feel to live in a world where a flight of stairs stood as a massive

Is it really a cage if it's the size of the world?" "Yes," said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense.

Mattina" M'illumino d'immenso

I found the sheer vastness of the spying system genuinely shocking, all the more so because it had clearly been implemented with virtually no accountability, no transparency, and no limits. The

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon.

Night in the desert. Nowhere else in all the world Night comes like this... My eyes, my human eyes, can see no end... The hard bright moon seems far, so far away— —The million, million stars that jeer at me— Great God, how big it is—and I But one more grain of sand beneath the immeasurable sky— Night in the desert...

A child cannot, thank Heaven, know how vast and how merciless is the nature of power, with what unbelievable cruelty people treat each other. He reacts to the fear in his parents' voices because his parents hold up the world for him and he has no protection without them.

The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the couldless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.

If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

It's vast to be alive," he said happily. "I can almost hear the rain waiting to be born.

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

God's genius is as wide as the cosmos, while by comparison our intelligence can find room on the head of a pin.

The smartest fish are still in the sea.

Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning